Oh, I didn't mean they were good. Just that she was writing in sort of the same tradition, for a new audience.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:28:26 pm PDT #14088 of 28287
Because books.
meara - Mar 14, 2011 4:30:00 pm PDT #14089 of 28287
Oh! I've heard of The Carpetbaggers, but not Harold Robbins. Or Simenon. I have read Cartland though.
Does it help that I recognized and have read all the "far more common are writers like Mary Gaitskill, Harlen Coben, Paolo Bacigalupi and Debbie Macomber, all best-selling, well-established writers whose name-recognition extends only as far as readers of single category" except Mary Gaitskill (I'm guessing a mystery writer?). Though admittedly, only Bacigalupi due to a free Baen book--is he really popular?
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:32:17 pm PDT #14090 of 28287
Because books.
Mary Gaitskill is literary fiction. I've never heard of Paolo Bacigalupi.
Strix - Mar 14, 2011 4:34:55 pm PDT #14091 of 28287
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think he wrote "The Wind-up Girl" which won a...Nebula this year? I haven't read it, though. I think it's kinda steampunky.
I only haven't heard of Coben, but then I am a big ol' bibliophile.
-t - Mar 14, 2011 4:35:06 pm PDT #14092 of 28287
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Heh. I've read The Windup Girl (by Bacigalupi) but I don't actually recognize his name (I googled).
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:36:06 pm PDT #14093 of 28287
Because books.
Oh! I've heard really good things about The Wind-up Girl, but I guess I hadn't heard his name.
Polter-Cow - Mar 14, 2011 4:36:14 pm PDT #14094 of 28287
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Mary Gaitskill (I'm guessing a mystery writer?)
Mary Gaitskill writes very kinky short stories.
Though admittedly, only Bacigalupi due to a free Baen book--is he really popular?
He won the Hugo and the Nebula.
meara - Mar 14, 2011 4:36:43 pm PDT #14095 of 28287
Harlan Coben whoops got him confused with Lee Child. Who I think of as very similar: Books I read on airplanes. :) Myron Bolitar, ex-sports star, now agent who ends up all up in mysteries and gets shot and stuff.
I hadn't heard of him until I was in a used bookstore in Vietnam and there were tons of his books. But when I came back to the states he seemed to be everywhere.
meara - Mar 14, 2011 4:37:51 pm PDT #14096 of 28287
He won the Hugo and the Nebula.
Well, sure, but Harlan Coben and Debbie Macomber have tons of books each--I'm confused by whether his point is "award winning authors in their genre" (...I don't actually think HC or DM are very GOOD) or just "popular authors in their genre"?
Amy - Mar 14, 2011 4:38:25 pm PDT #14097 of 28287
Because books.
Mary Gaitskill's written novels, too.
meara, Lee Child writes the Jack Reacher series, which I only know because S. loves them.